DOCTORS are revolting in the cosy club that is the British Medical Association.

Lancashire GP Dr Kailash Chand is demanding all 133,000 medics vote on a new leader. Incredibly, the influential post in Britain's most powerful trade union is determined by a clique of 34 on the BMA council.

Dr Chand, who sits in that magic circle, admits it is undemocratic.

Two-thirds of doctors are women or from an ethnic minority, some of course both. Yet in 175 years the chair has always been a white man, often a golf-playing consultant. Up the doctors!

WANNA BE Bolton MP Phil "Gizza Seat" Collins has lousy judgment.

Guess who declared in 2001: "There is a big danger that our current assessment of Gordon Brown is at the very top of the market"?

Yep, the Downing Street speechwriter masquerading now as the premier-tobe's biggest fan. Shame is dead as Blairite fanatics scramble for new meal tickets.

THE mystery of the "John Reid" who donated £2K to Alan Johnson's Labour deputy leadership coffers is solved.

He is Elton John's exmanager, not the grumpy Home Secretary.

With music fan AJ now odds-on to win, Reid has picked another Rocket Man.